Countin' on a miracle, countin' on a miracle
Countin' on miracle to come through
Countin' on a miracle, countin' on a miracle
Countin' on miracle to come through

I'm runnin' through the forest with the wolf at my heels
My king is lost at midnight when the tower bells peal, when the tower bells peal
We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate's complete
Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet, this dust beneath my feet
If I'm gonna live I'll lift my life, darlin' to you I'll lift my life

Countin' on a miracle, countin' on a miracle
Countin' on miracle to come through
Countin' on a miracle, countin' on a miracle
Countin' on miracle to come through

[spoken:] Countin' on miracle

Page last updated: 01 May 2006

Danny Clinch, who also took the album cover photo for The Rising, filmed Springsteen
on 28 Jun 2002 at Southern Tracks Studio, Atlanta, GA, sitting on a couch and
playing a completely rearranged acoustic version of COUNTIN' ON A MIRACLE. Read
Danny Clinch interview below.

The video was played on the screens after many shows of The Rising tour. The audio for
this acoustic performance was included on The Essential Bruce Springsteen bonus disc in
2003. Read Bruce notes below for more info.

Liner notes by Bruce Springsteen in the
The Essential Bruce Springsteen booklet:

I sat in the lounge of Southern Tracks Studio where we recorded "The Rising" and
played this country blues version of "Countin' On A Miracle."
Filmmaker/photographer Danny Clinch was there with his super 8 film camera and caught it on tape.
We closed our shows on tour with his film. This is the audio portion.

It was down in Atlanta at the [Southern Tracks] studio, and I was told if I didn't point the
camera at Brendan O'Brien, it was cool. So there I was in the studio, walking on eggshells -- I was
a little nervous about it, because I really wanted to come through and document the process. I was
shooting stills, and on the third day I didn't have too many moving images; I made a concerted
effort to shoot video on my Super 8 camera. I wanted to come away with something special, so I
asked Bruce if he would mind playing the guitar so I could film it.

So he sat down with his guitar, pulled out the slide and started to play this country-blues version
of "Counting' on a Miracle." I shot the whole thing, and he floored me and my assistant,
Hannah. I didn't realize he was going to play a whole song. I was hoping to get some stuff to cut
away, b-roll whatever. He totally floored us. But then I realized that I didn't have any audio
going -- it was Super 8 with no audio.

This is one of those decisions in my life that I'm so glad that I made. I turned to Hannah and said
that I need to ask him to do it again. Bruce Springsteen. And I have to ask him to do it again. I
sweating big time.

So, I went downstairs, and I was walking in circles for a while, and I finally went over and asked
him, "Is there any chance you can come back up and do it again?" I told him I needed to
shoot it again with my other camera that had audio. He looked at me like, I'm kinda busy. I
said to him, "Believe me, I wouldn't ask you to do this if I didn't think we could do
something cool." He was like, "Ok, we'll do it in a couple of minutes." We shot it
again, so we cut back and forth with the Super 8.

We cut it together in two hours and sent it out. Out of all the stuff we shot, Dave Marsh saw it
and told Bruce it was really cool and he should show it after the show. So they started to play the
little film at every stop on the Rising tour. Seeing it at Madison Square Garden was
unbelievable. That set the stage for Devils & Dust.